Expedition Collection

Baobab near the bank of the Lue (Adansonia digitata)
Oil on canvas. Inscribed in paint on verso of canvas BAOBAB near the bank of the Lue, a tributary of the Zambesi River above Kabrabasi

The Welwitschia mirabilis
Oil on canvas. Inscribed in paint on verso The Welwitschia mirabilis, Nyanka Kykamkop or plant of Hykamkop or Otjitumbo Otjihooro. Stump with a head. South West Africa T. Baines

Mesembryanthemum simplex, 1793
Watercolour and pencil on paper by Francis Masson, 1793. Field sketch made by Masson in the Cape of Good Hope

Joseph Hooker

Artocarpus altilis
Watercolour of Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit) collection of Miss Janet Hutton, 1894. Includes cross section of the plants fruit

The result of three days seed collecting in SW. Burkina Faso

Baobab trees between San and Mopti

Mesembryanthemum digitatum, 1772-1793
Watercolour on paper of Mesembryanthemum digitatum by Francis Masson, 1772-1793. The inscription mentions Dactylopsis digitata which is an old synonym the current accepted plant name

RBG Kew expedition to Cameroon, 1995. Between 1995-2003, several RBG Kew-National Herbarium of Cameroon (HNC) teams combed the forest, supported by local conservation NGOs and Earthwatch volunteers

Sir Peter Crane of RBG Kew on an expedition to Borneo, seen here climbing into the tree canopy of the Sabah rainforest, 2005

Ernest Henry Wilson (back row, second from right) with colleagues while working as a gardener at Kew, circa 1897. Two years later, in 1899, he would begin work as a plant collector

Joseph Rock (1884-1962), a Viennese-born naturalist, author and linguist. From 1922 to 1949 he travelled through south-west China studying the flora, peoples, culture and languages of the region

Hands holding Combretum fragrans seeds

CNSF staff seed collecting from Pterocarpus erinaceus, Dinderesso15km from Bobo Dioulasso

Plant portrait Combretum fragrans

Seed pods of Entada abyssinica, north of Banfora

Hands with Bixa orellana seeds

Sandunes between Sesriem to Sossusvlei
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Collecting Sesamum abbreviatum
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Petrified sandunes near to Namib lodge
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Kuiseb river canyon, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Miombo woodland in Malawi

mulanje cedar

tree ferns in Malawi

Seeds of Tripteris microcarpa
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Flowers of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley
Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Botanic expedition to Malawi
Botanists in Malawi, southern Africa

Botanist at work
Expedition to Malawi

The Great Tree-Aloe of Damaraland (Aloe dichotoma)
Oil on canvas. Inscribed in paint on verso of canvas The Great Tree-Aloe of Damaraland, South West Africa, about 20 feet in height

Adansonia digitata L. (Baobab or Upside-down tree)
Watercolour, gouache and pencil field sketch on paper. Inscribed by Baines in pencil on recto The Big tree a M.... or Baobab at Marma Kahuwe Dec 29 1861 10am, T. Baines

Deforestation in Brunei
Deforestation, logging truck, Berakas, Brunei

Henry Ridley and houseboat, Kuala Tembeling, Malaysia, 1911
Henry Ridley standing by a houseboat at Kuala Tembeling in Malaysia, 1911. He travelled extensively in the Malay peninsula while director of the Singapore Botanic gardens

John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916
John Davenport Snowden, botanical explorer and plant collector, with his wife, standing outside their tent at a camp near Kampala, Uganda, in 1916

Pioneers Cabin at the base of a Sequoiadendron giganteum
" Pioneers Cabin" at the base of a Sequoiadendron giganteum, California, USA. Joseph Hooker purchased this photograph, probably during his expedition to the United States (circa 1877)

Arthur Hill, Director of Kew 1922-41. A keen horseman, Arthur Hill used to take a ride every morning but unfortunately met his death in 1941 when he fell from a horse on the Mid Surrey Golf Course

Alexander Wollaston, doctor, explorer and naturalist. photograph from an album illustrating the zoological and botanical expedition Wollaston led to the Snow Mountains of Dutch New Guinea 1912-1913

Sandunes
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Acacia erioloba
Sesriem to Sossusvlei, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

tree fern

phoenix reclinata

Plants and Fungi
Kew B2B Plants and Fungi

Ferns & mosses
Kew B2B Plants and Fungi: Ferns & mosses

Fruit of Tapinanthes oleiifolius, LORANTHACEAE
Guanikontes in the Swakopmund river valley, Namibia Seed Collecting Expedition 2007

Malawi grassland

Malawi, southern Africa
Botanic expedition to Malawi

Kew botanist

Malawi
Botanic expedition to Malawi

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